Alexey Korotaev In Moscow, at the request of Interpol, the son of an SVR general, billionaire Alexei Korotaev, was detained. He is wanted at the request of Switzerland due to suspicions of fraud and breach of trust. In 2017, he was serving a sentence in the UAE for financial fraud, but got off with a fine of €2,000. What is known about the Russian-Swiss financier is in our material.
Baza Telegram channel citing a source, reports that in the Moscow metro, at the request of Interpol, a Swiss billionaire, the son of General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Alexei Korotaev, was detained. It is noted that he was identified by CCTV cameras.
“On the evening of April 27, a camera with a face recognition system went off at the Kutuzovskaya metro station – it noticed 36-year-old Alexei Korotaev, who is on the international wanted list of Interpol,” Baza said in a statement.
It is noted that an international organization is looking for a businessman at the request of Switzerland, where he is suspected of fraud and breach of trust. Now Korotaev is under arrest, according to Baza.
However REN TV citing a source, he writes that Korotaev was indeed detained, but after an inspection he was released, since he is not wanted in Russia. His location has been forwarded to Interpol headquarters. Switzerland, as the initiator of the search, may send a request to the Russian side for his extradition, however, for this, the facts set forth in the request must be within the jurisdiction of Russian law.
Alexey Alekseevich Korotaev is an investor and financier. According to unconfirmed reports, he has Russian and Swiss passports. This is the second arrest for the businessman, in 2017 he was sentenced to a three-year imprisonment in the UAE on charges of fraud and illegal signing of a check for €18 million. However, six months later he paid a fine of €2,000 and was released. In connection with criminal prosecution and imprisonment the deal fell through on the purchase of the football club “Roda” and Korotaev received only 20% of the club’s shares.
According to unconfirmed reports, Korotaev may be involved in the work of an international tax evasion network in Dubai through the investment fund Helin International, which featured in the Emirati case against Korotaev. It is also reported that Korotaev’s company Private Kapital Partners Asset Management Limited, registered on the island of Mauritius, is suspected in the United States of laundering money for Russian law enforcement agencies, representatives of the energy sector and other businessmen.
Russia’s status in Interpol
After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, they wanted to exclude Russia from Interpol, the Ukrainian and British authorities made efforts to do this. However, almost immediately, on March 11 of the same year, the organization announced that Moscow’s membership would not be suspended, although the procedure for receiving requests from the Russian Federation would change. It was noted that in the event of the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the organization of the International Police, there would be a risk of “serious security problems in the event of the termination of the exchange of information.” However, at the same time, Moscow has lost the ability to send requests directly to Interpol member countries, but must do this through the General Secretariat.
At the end of October 2022, the issue of excluding the Russian Federation was again raised, but the issue was postponed for at least a year.
The USSR was admitted to Interpol in 1990. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became its legal successor, and the National Central Bureau of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was created in the country. Since 2011, the department has been headed by Police Major General Oleksandr Prokopchuk; in October 2021, he left the post of his own free will.
